*ORA-LITE:

*ORA-LITE is a dynamic meta-network assessment and analysis tool developed by CASOS at Carnegie Mellon. It contains hundreds of social network, dynamic network metrics, trail metrics, procedures for grouping nodes, identifying local patterns, comparing and contrasting networks, groups, and individuals from a dynamic meta-network perspective. *ORA-LITE has been used to examine how networks change through space and time, contains procedures for moving back and forth between trail data (e.g. who was where when) and network data (who is connected to whom, who is connected to where …), and has a variety of geo-spatial network metrics, and change detection techniques. *ORA-LITE can handle multi-mode,
multi-plex, multi-level networks. It can identify key players, groups and vulnerabilities, model network changes over time, and perform COA analysis. Although all metrics available in *ORA-LITE have been tested
with large networks (10^6 nodes per 5 entity classes); *ORA-LITE is
itself limited to a maximum of 2,000 nodes per entity class. So you can have 2000 agents, 2000
organizations, and so on. The Professional version of ORA which is
available from Netanomics (www.netanomics.com) has no limit on the
number of nodes. Distance based, algorithmic, and statistical procedures for comparing and contrasting networks are part of this toolkit.

Based on network theory, social psychology, operations
research, and management theory a series of measures of “criticality” have been
developed at CMU.Just as critical
path algorithms can be used to locate those tasks that are critical from a
project management perspective, the *ORA-LITE algorithms can find those
people, types of skills or knowledge and tasks that are critical from a
performance and information security perspective.Each of the measures we have developed
are calculated by *ORA-LITE on the basis of network data like that in the
following table.

*ORA-LITE can be applied both within a traditional
organization or on covert networks.

For information on ORA-PRO
ORA-PRO is offered by Netanomics, visit their website for additional software information.
ORA-PRO supports unlimited number of nodes, geo-spatial and temporal analytics and visualization. In addition, in ORA-PRO specialized sub-tools for twitter and blog importing, geo-spatial network metrics.
Data pruning technqiues for big data are also available.

ORA Google Group
The ORA Google Group provides a forum for questions, collaborations, and information related to CASOS tools. Please visit this link for instructions on becoming a member of the ORA Google Group: How to Join the ORA Google Group.

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